BIO

Former student of the Fine Arts School of Toulouse, Gilles Vidal lives in the Toulouse region and works both in Toulouse and Paris. Having worked as an interior architect for almost 11 years, he changes his career in 1998 to follow two training courses at the ETPA School of Photo - Multimedia section.

Self-taught photographer, his numerous interactive panoramic reports carried out on behalf of online newspapers, such as Libération, Rue89 and 20minutes, make his production known in the early 2000s.

Simultaneously, traditional photography becomes increasingly prevalent in Gilles Vidal’s professional life to the point of fully devoting himself to it from 2008 onwards.

Cultural events, live performances, architecture and portraits then come to be his dominant activity. Through the portraits of figures pertaining to the worlds of performing arts and literature, Gilles Vidal tries to fully express himself by sometimes using color, often black and white, in reportage or in studio.